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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Alphonse Daudet which are Tartarin of Tarascon and The Immortal. Alphonse Daudet is now remembered chiefly as the author of sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France. Novels selected for this book: - Tartarin of Tarascon. - The Immortal.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
Leon Daudet's memoir of Alphonse Daudet. Also included is "The Daudet Family" (Mon Frere et Moi).
Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French novelist, whose work radiated humour and good cheer. Few knew that for his entire adult life he suffered from syphilis, a disease both unmentionable and incurable at the time. What even fewer realised was that he kept an intimate notebook in which he recorded the development and terrifying effects of the disease. Describing a life in pain, and the sometimes alarming treatments he underwent, Daudet's journal is unique for its comic zest, lucid self-examination and stoicism. Translated by the Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes.
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